.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 358 212
Rank change year-on-year +119 -146 -63
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 766 307 904
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 0.71% 1.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.12% 4.01% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 707 279 678
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 £83,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,500 £106,250 £87,875
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,762 7,655 14,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.59% 17.72% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,872 5,073 9,652
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £69,384 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.71% +6.74% -3.70%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 18 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +106 195 £55,000 -4.35% 69
North of England +29 181 £55,000 -8.33% 70
East of England +70 114 £60,000 +20.00% 28
Midlands +39 101 £55,000 -8.33% 35
London -101 96 £77,500 -3.13% 142
South West -39 76 £52,500 - 16
North East -8 73 £65,000 +30.00% 18
North West +6 71 £55,000 -8.33% 38
West Midlands +3 59 £55,000 -8.33% 23
East Midlands -5 42 £50,000 -16.67% 12
Yorkshire -25 37 £47,500 -20.83% 15
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 22 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.70%) IIS
3 7 (0.91%) CMS
3 7 (0.91%) Confluence
4 6 (0.78%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.52%) Kentico
5 4 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.39%) DNN
6 3 (0.39%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.39%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.39%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 626 (81.72%) Azure
2 217 (28.33%) Azure DevOps
3 150 (19.58%) GitHub
4 132 (17.23%) AWS
4 132 (17.23%) GitHub Copilot
5 130 (16.97%) Azure AI
6 75 (9.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 41 (5.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 39 (5.09%) Power Platform
9 31 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
9 31 (4.05%) Power Automate
10 27 (3.52%) PowerApps
11 26 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
12 22 (2.87%) Azure Key Vault
13 20 (2.61%) SaaS
13 20 (2.61%) Serverless
14 18 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (2.22%) Google Play
16 15 (1.96%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 15 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.87%) Internet
2 6 (0.78%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.39%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 431 (56.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 360 (47.00%) MongoDB
3 151 (19.71%) Elasticsearch
4 144 (18.80%) SQL Server
5 31 (4.05%) Power BI
6 27 (3.52%) Relational Database
7 21 (2.74%) MySQL
8 17 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.70%) Redis
10 11 (1.44%) NonStop SQL
11 10 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.04%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.91%) GIS
15 3 (0.39%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.39%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.26%) MariaDB
17 1 (0.13%) HBase
Development Applications
1 72 (9.40%) Git
2 15 (1.96%) JIRA
3 14 (1.83%) NUnit
4 11 (1.44%) Visual Studio
5 10 (1.31%) GitLab
6 7 (0.91%) MSI
7 6 (0.78%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.78%) TeamCity
8 5 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.65%) Postman
8 5 (0.65%) Snyk
9 4 (0.52%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.39%) JUnit
10 3 (0.39%) Selenium
10 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 110 (14.36%) Finance
2 82 (10.70%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.05%) Advertising
4 42 (5.48%) Games
5 38 (4.96%) Marketing
6 33 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (4.18%) Retail
8 31 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (3.13%) Public Sector
10 20 (2.61%) Law
11 14 (1.83%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.70%) Banking
13 11 (1.44%) Legal
13 11 (1.44%) Music Industry
14 8 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.78%) Automotive
16 5 (0.65%) Local Government
16 5 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.52%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 654 (85.38%) Developer
2 526 (68.67%) .NET Developer
3 102 (13.32%) Senior
4 81 (10.57%) Software Developer
5 73 (9.53%) Senior Developer
6 63 (8.22%) C# Developer
7 50 (6.53%) Lead
8 47 (6.14%) C# .NET Developer
9 43 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 33 (4.31%) Lead Developer
11 32 (4.18%) Software Engineer
12 29 (3.79%) Senior C# Developer
13 28 (3.66%) .NET Software Developer
14 27 (3.52%) Senior .NET Developer
15 22 (2.87%) Senior Software Developer
16 19 (2.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 18 (2.35%) C# Software Developer
17 18 (2.35%) Lead .NET Developer
18 17 (2.22%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 17 (2.22%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 766 (100.00%) .NET
2 506 (66.06%) ASP.NET
3 438 (57.18%) ASP.NET Core
4 235 (30.68%) CSS
5 233 (30.42%) HTML
6 221 (28.85%) Entity Framework
7 210 (27.42%) Blazor
8 204 (26.63%) React
9 192 (25.07%) AngularJS
10 183 (23.89%) RESTful
11 168 (21.93%) ASP.NET Web API
11 168 (21.93%) Vue
12 149 (19.45%) Node.js
13 143 (18.67%) .NET Framework
14 127 (16.58%) ML.NET
15 107 (13.97%) LINQ
16 73 (9.53%) REST
17 48 (6.27%) JSON
18 34 (4.44%) WPF
19 27 (3.52%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.23%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (8.22%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.61%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.48%) Digital TV
6 18 (2.35%) Cloud Native
7 17 (2.22%) iPhone
8 15 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.96%) Product Ownership
9 12 (1.57%) Sports Betting
10 11 (1.44%) BBC
10 11 (1.44%) Social Media
11 10 (1.31%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.31%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.31%) Social Network
12 9 (1.17%) Hedge funds
12 9 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (0.91%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.26%) Windows
2 17 (2.22%) Android
3 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Linux
4 2 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (66.32%) Full-Stack Development
2 402 (52.48%) Agile
3 265 (34.60%) CI/CD
4 258 (33.68%) DevOps
5 208 (27.15%) Microservices
6 164 (21.41%) AI
7 142 (18.54%) Machine Learning
8 140 (18.28%) Multithreading
9 103 (13.45%) Scrum
10 87 (11.36%) Software Engineering
11 84 (10.97%) OO
12 82 (10.70%) TDD
13 66 (8.62%) BDD
14 62 (8.09%) Kanban
15 57 (7.44%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
16 56 (7.31%) Problem-Solving
17 53 (6.92%) Mentoring
17 53 (6.92%) User Experience
18 46 (6.01%) MVC
19 44 (5.74%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 712 (92.95%) C#
2 504 (65.80%) SQL
3 263 (34.33%) JavaScript
4 202 (26.37%) TypeScript
5 25 (3.26%) Python
6 23 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.83%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.57%) Java
9 10 (1.31%) VBA
10 9 (1.17%) Bicep
11 4 (0.52%) Bash
11 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.52%) Ruby
11 4 (0.52%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.39%) Go
12 3 (0.39%) VBScript
13 2 (0.26%) C
13 2 (0.26%) Dart
14 1 (0.13%) Delphi
14 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (8.09%) Degree
2 28 (3.66%) SC Cleared
2 28 (3.66%) Security Cleared
3 22 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.04%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.39%) ICAEW
6 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.39%) OCP
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.92%) QA
2 25 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.91%) NCSC
3 7 (0.91%) WCAG
4 4 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.39%) GDPR
5 3 (0.39%) NIST
6 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.13%) Basel III
System Software
1 185 (24.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 167 (21.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.39%) Ansible
2 3 (0.39%) Grafana
2 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 504 (65.80%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.66%) Facebook
3 45 (5.87%) Google
4 21 (2.74%) YouTube
5 15 (1.96%) Adobe
6 11 (1.44%) Apple
6 11 (1.44%) Sony
6 11 (1.44%) Yahoo!
7 7 (0.91%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.78%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.52%) Sitecore
9 4 (0.52%) Splunk
9 4 (0.52%) Workday
10 3 (0.39%) Alterian
10 3 (0.39%) Optimizely
11 2 (0.26%) Databricks
11 2 (0.26%) IFS
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle
11 2 (0.26%) Sage
11 2 (0.26%) Veracode